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/ Still from the film The New Black, one of the films screening in Milwaukee Film s GenreQueer Pride Month program.
This year for Pride Month, Milwaukee Film’s GenreQueer program is presenting over 20 films and events throughout June focused on LGBTQ+ cinema. GenreQueer was started in 2018 as a part of the Milwaukee Film Festival and is now being expanded as a part of Milwaukee Film’s Culture & Communities project, which is dedicated to representing historically marginalized communities.
In 2019, Aster Gilbert was hired as GenreQueer’s lead program coordinator and says this plan to expand out of the film festival has existed since the early days of the program.
Express Briefing: Popovich enters political fray with Prop B endorsement
April 22, 2021
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While elated with the verdicts against Derek Chauvin, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said Wednesday “justice has not been realized yet” and that structural changes are needed to guard against police misconduct. That’s one of the reasons he supports Prop B.
San Antonio band Passing Strangers turns back time with new wave and nostalgia
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Passing Strangers play the AquaDuck Beer Garden. The new wave band had a local hit in the early ’90s with a remake of “Dream Weaver.”Billy Calzada /Staff Photographer
On a recent Friday night at AquaDuck Beer Garden on the South Side, several dozen middle-aged fans bopped to the beat of Passing Strangers as the San Antonio band belted out cover after cover of classic new wave hits like “Let’s Go” by the Cars and “Just Like Heaven” by the Cure.
“How many of you have seen us before?” asked Passing Strangers’ front man and founding member John Boyd. “Yes, we played your prom.”